Kyiv, Ukraine’s Capital vs Russian Invaders
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2022
- A strategic bird's-eye look at Kyiv as Ukraine defends its capital from Russia.
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This is a birdseye look at Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine as its residents prepare for terrifying urban combat with an invading Russian army that is coming to take their freedom.
Home to nearly 3 million people, Kyiv is situated on the west bank of the Dnipro (nee-prow) river. To the north, the Dnipro is dammed by the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Station, the site of a fierce battle at the start of the invasion when it was captured by Russian troops, then retaken by Ukraine. It is the main source of the city’s electricity and holds back the water in the Kyiv reservoir. If the dam were to fail, flooding could destroy the city’s low-lying riverside neighborhoods and plunge the rest of the capital into darkness.
The bridges crossing the Dnipro serve as a pinch point for Russian ground forces invading from the east. The advances of their armored vehicles have been repeatedly stymied throughout the country when farmland turns into more densely populated suburbs, funneling Russian vehicles into single-file lines that can be ambushed by highly effective shoulder-launched anti-tank weapons, and then pounded by Ukrainian artillery firing from several kilometers away.
So the handful of bridges crossing the Dnipro will be a major focal point in the days ahead.
The east flank of central Kyiv has another defensive advantage as well - its position on a hill that’s up to 100 meters above the river bank.
Kyiv is also facing Russians invading from Belarus in the northwest. Heavy fighting has reached Irpin, which lies across the river of the same name. Bridges crossing the narrow Irpin into Kyiv are more spread out than those crossing the Dnipro and lead to several roads that pass through an unpopulated, wooded area spanning a few kilometers before reaching the edge of the city.
Just to the north of Irpin is Antonov International Airport. In one of the opening moves of the war, it was briefly captured by Russian paramilitary troops flown in by helicopter. But the airport was quickly retaken by the Ukrainians.
Control of airfields is vital. There are four others in the immediate region: the Vasylkiv Air force base to the south, which was reported destroyed in a Russian missile attack on March 15, the Boryspil airport - attacked on the first day of the war - the Sviatoshyn industrial airfield, and Sikorsky International airport located 7 kilometers south of the city center.
For the current columns of Russian ground forces to reach the city center, they will have to fight their way through several kilometers of a highly built-up and developed European capital. Combat would take place over hundreds of blocks among both wide boulevards and narrow streets lined by 4-10 story buildings. We have not seen anything like this since World War II.
Based on how the war has gone so far, it is hard to imagine how Russia will effectively occupy and maintain control of a city this size in the face of what has been a fierce and persistent resistance.
But if the occupation is Putin’s goal, Russia will definitely need to control the Kyiv rail hub so resupplies can arrive by train. And - for symbolic purposes - it will need to control independence square and the government buildings around it.
However, if the goal is to encircle and lay siege to the city to starve and break its people, as the Russians are doing to other Ukrainian cities, the occupier's lines will likely have to hold up against many desperate attempts to break them from both inside and outside.
Whatever happens in Kyiv, the entire world is watching.
For day-to-day military reports: www.understandingwar.org/
For compelling profiles of those staying in Kyiv: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/18/magazine/ukraine-war-kyiv.html
Nice stitching of video footage over aerial imagery. Really brought together where these major engagements are occurring relative to the main city center
Glad it helped, Brian. Making it definitely helped me get a better sense of the battleground.
If you made one of these every week I would watch it.
Appreciate that feedback.
At this point I can't even see how Russia will control Russia
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Woooooooo TDC is back with cut edge content
The "epic" background music belongs in movies, not in discussions about real war. Nice summary aside from that.
Thanks for the feedback.
Great job with this video
Excellent video. I know that UK shares a military base in Cyprus and satellite technology with US, so there was certainly a heads up this conflagration was about to happen. It's hard to imagine Russia will prevail. Salient fact, more Russians have died in short space than American troops through the 2 decade Afghan war- puts the Russian military into perspective doesn't it?
Where did you get that info from???
@@oscarevarist2494 Just from an American former general talking on a British Media channel. Further I know that UK has 2nd largest military bases and UK-USA Security Agreement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_military_bases_of_the_United_Kingdom and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
Thanks Jamie. I saw that eye-opening statistic as well, and that's the low end of the estimate of Russian losses.
As part Ukrainian and Russian, one thing that sucks is the civilians that stayed have to experience war.
Nicely done 👍
Great video 👍🏻 I didn’t mind the music at all.
Thanks Oliver! I knew I was making a stylistic decision with the music, but I felt overall it enhanced the video. Yes, the music is dramatic, but this is a very dramatic situation!
Wow thats was welldone
Well done.
Wow nice ilustración!
Videonya sangat Luar biasa dan keren
Wow, quite а show!
Oh his back!!! Can't wait for what's to come.
good explanation, but the background music is too sensational for my taste. thats not a game, it is reality.
Noice video
Putin is bringing great shame to Russia. So sad to see a great nation sink so low. Slava Ukraini!
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No one knows how to pronounce Kyiv. It's not "Keev." It's "Kih - yeev". 2 syllables.
I know. I actually recorded a version where I tried to be locally-accurate in the pronunciation and - upon listening back - concluded it would be too distracting, so I went "safe" and said "keev" like other American journalists do. I used this video as my pronunciation guide: ruclips.net/video/cE1f6GUvG5Y/видео.html
Kyiv city layout seems whole lot similar to baghdad... the russians would have to keep ukraine's ports and santion out ukraine for a decade before her tanks roll into the maidan
WTF? Kyiv is Europe with nuclear electricity and other HIgh Tech stuff! What baghdad are you talking about dude?
I see what you mean, bisected by a river with no close access to other ports.
Good info, but the music was too "american" , so much drama. :/
We still control our capital! Glory to Ukraine!
Indeed!
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@@silverianjannvs5315 and you are Putin's?
what happens in Kyiv stays in Kyiv
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or maybe realizing the areas Russia is attacking are major logistic export areas
Nice video. Unfortunately we don’t accurate updates in the USA and the propaganda is so heavy it’s hard to tell truth from fiction. I know this is a controversial view but Ukraine should sue for peace and stop this madness.
Thanks. It seems Ukraine is suing for peace, but Russia's demands are ridiculous. Zelenskyy already declared Ukraine wouldn't join NATO.
@@TDC_TheDocumentaryChannel I feel real bad for the people of Ukraine. I hope they can come to some kind of agreement.
Putinizm it's non-Cristian ideology. Kremlin want wars and many deaths.
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Hello from Kyiv Ukraine 🇺🇦 I hope Saint Pitersburg and Moscow will be destroyed completely. ☮️💟
The music is soo unnecessary.
Yeah super distracting, very bad choice of music
Zelenski had easy way out of war, he choose worst. Now clean up operation will not end until all Nazify leaders are dead or arrested. He will end like Sadam Husein. Glory to the Russian army we will cheer victory soon! Full support from Serbia! Godspeed!
Zelensky is a Jew, no neonazis came to power in last election, and the only people who believe this war is about Nazis are you trolls.
@@carlabroderick5508 He does not have any control on NAZI brigades in he's country first of all, he did not try to stop them of doing all kind of crimes and killing against Russian population. 8 years they where warned from Putin guess what west done? Can you guess ?? OFC they fully support them all just because they are against Russia. Im not troll you and people like you who knows nothing are. You don't even see that how blindly you follow western propaganda.
How about now? What do you think now? :D
Stand strong Mother Russia 💪🏻🇷🇺
You just wait till see what nato in the west does to your Russian government that you like so much
@@matthew-jy5jp Nato is not going to do anything because they do not want a nuclear war. If they did they would have implemented a no fly zone.
To "stay" strong would imply that Russia was ever strong in the first place. So the correct term would be "Be strong, Russia."
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Ukrainian propaganda
I didn't know it was Ukrainian propaganda that Russia invaded, thanks for letting us know the truth.
go away Russian bot
Russian troll.
Did you capture Kiev yet? :D
I can’t believe Russias is celebrating military tactics, long live mother Russia!!!